As noted by Julian Tepper, host of The Julian Tepper Show on WTNT-AM in Washington, D.C., the case centers on how we value the worth of a human being.He comments, "Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that Terri Schiavio was ultimately limited in what she could appreciate.

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Tepper makes the point that if her husband was correct - that she did not want to be kept alive - the autopsy results suggest that she would not have been aware of the fact that she was being kept alive.
So, he asks, how can you say that she was being harmed by being kept alive and cared for?
Instead, the autopsy results are being used by the media to suggest that the family was wrong for wanting to care for her because her life was not worth living.

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Tepper asks, "Why was the family shut out of the funeral?

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As I told Julian Tepper on his show, "The essential issue was her individual right to life...The coverage suggested, after the autopsy, that she really wasn't one of us.
She was different.
She didn't have the same intellect as we do.
Only half a brain.